Jason Vorhees wrote:
quoted 1 line Wouldn't it be easier if there was a messageboard
> Wouldn't it be easier if there was a messageboard
If you think the posts are getting moronic now, you should see what happens
when any idiot with a web browser can read and post. I was running some
general message boards on Hyperreal for a while, and they utterly sucked. For
every decent thread, there were fifty off-topic posts from trolls, bigots,
spammers, and people who just clearly have not one single clue about what they
are talking about.
Yes, it would be "easier" but there is a huge price you pay for that
convenience: even with user registration, the overall quality and the
signal-to-noise ratio go WAY down. Using an old-fashioned mailing list that
enforces plain text content raises the bar sufficiently to keep out most, but
obviously not all, of the riff-raff. It's a bit like running a telnet-based
chat server (these days) rather than full-blown IRC.
Mike
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Denver, Colorado, USA
http://hyperreal.org/~mike/
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